29943: San Francisco Haiti Protest Feb 7th - Powell & Market (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Haiti Action Committee <haitiaction@yahoo.com>

SF Haiti Protest Feb 7th - Powell & Market

Emergency Protest : February 7th International Day in
Solidarity with Haiti, with multi-city protests on 4
Continents



*** STOP UN 'Peacekeeper' Massacres in Haiti

*** Free All Political Prisoners

*** End Foreign Military Occupation of Haiti

*** Respect Haiti?s Sovereignty ? Return President
Aristide



Wednesday, Feb 7, 2007 - Gather at 4:30 pm for a 5 pm
Rally at Powell & Market (Powell St. BART) Followed by
a March down Market to a picket at the Brazilian
Consulate, 300 Montgomery (between Pine & California).
Brazil commands the UN military force in Haiti.



The foreign military occupation of Haiti continues.
The 8000 UN troops are a proxy force for the US,
French and Canadian soldiers who overthrew Haiti's
government in a 2004 coup. UN troops and
police-controlled death squads routinely assault
communities that support the Lavalas grassroots
democracy movement. They are responsible for killings,
sexual abuse, beatings, house burnings, arbitrary
arrests, and prolonged, illegal detention of people
without any charges.



In the pre-dawn of December 22nd, 400 Brazilian-led UN
troops began a day-long raid in Cite Soleil -- an
operation on the scale of the July 6, 2005 UN massacre
in the same poor, working-class community. They fired
heavy weapons from tanks and helicopters into people's
homes. Many residents were killed and wounded. Local
citizens were outraged that UN troops blocked Red
Cross access to the area, refusing medical care to
people they had injured, including numerous children.



The grassroots movement in Haiti has called for
coordinated international protests on February 7, to
raise the demand: All foreign occupation forces must
leave Haiti now!



Let us act now in solidarity with our Haitian sisters
and brothers, whose unbreakable spirit, in the face of
severe repression, won?t stop.



Sponsored by Haiti Action Committee
www.haitiaction.net   www.haitisolidarity.net
510-483-7481





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